Halloween Kills is the new Halloween film following on from the 2018 reboot of the franchise and again Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode as Michael Myers has returned to wreak havoc on Haddonfield, Illinois but this time a group of townspeople led by Anthony Michael Hall are ready to kill him.
Halloween Kills is not a very good film at all for 3 key reasons:
- First is that this script is a mess, lacking any kind of clear focus in terms of its overall storytelling and not putting enough focus on where it should have been and where the 2018 film I felt worked best, the dynamic between the 3 generations of Strode women and how they band together to fight Michael but here their virtually sidelined to very minor roles and the film is worse for it as the newer characters are boring.
As for Michael Myers he’s basically The Terminator in this movie, he can’t be bargained with, he can’t be reasoned with, he doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear and he absolutely will not stop EVER! Until you are dead and the way Anthony Michael Hall’s character is portrayed he’s one stop away from going the full Kyle Reese where he yells at everyone about how they still don’t get it.
He’ll find you.
THAT’S WHAT HE DOES.
THAT’S ALL HE DOES.
YOU CAN’T STOP HIM!!!
Okay I’ll stop there.
- Secondly the kills in this movie are very predictable, right from the beginning I sat there in my seat I started thinking “Okay just get the opening kill over with so we can get to the title music” and it didn’t get much better from there, every time we saw a new character or a group of the old ones walking around the streets at night I thought “Michael’s gonna come from them” and sure enough he did and unlike Malignant which had fantastic horror kills these ones are terrible with no life or sense of joy in them, the Blood must flow but this movie botches that badly.
- And lastly the waste of Jamie Lee Curtis in this movie is unforgivable, so much of the promotion of the 2018 film was centred around her coming back as an older Laurie and when it focused on her the film worked for me as well as Laurie’s daughter and granddaughter but here their all sidelined they get little to nothing to do and it highlights for me 2 things.
Firstly how important that guiding hand of Debra Hill was on the 1978 original not only as the producer of the film but also co-writing it with John Carpenter and you really felt her hand in the script pages when Laurie and her friends in the original were talking amongst themselves and that is sorely missing here.
And also both of these new Halloween films could’ve really benefited from a woman amongst the writing team as David Gordon Green and Danny McBride who are the chief writers on these new films it feels like they haven’t got as good a grip on Laurie and how to use her as a character in the same way that John Carpenter and Debra Hill did on the original film and these new films really fall short in comparison to the Carpenter/Hill original.
And so that was Halloween Kills and its terrible, just watch the 1978 original and leave it there don’t bother with this new film, 1 out of 5.
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